Messieurs et Mesdames --
I have installed Debian 6 (Squeeze) on a Dell Dimension XPS T500,
running at 500 megahertz, with 768 megabytes of memory. It has a
60-gigabyte IDE drive and a set of SCSI drives connected through an
Adaptec 2840 host adapter. It uses GRUB 2 as its booter.
1. I executed the script shown on page 9 of the GRUB documentation, viz.
mke2fs /dev/fd0
mount -text2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/fd0
but was told
Unrecognized option 'boot-directory=/mnt/boot'
2. The -h option for grub-install said that there was a --root-directory
option, but not an option --boot-directory. I repeated the above script
using --root-directory instead of --boot-directory, and was given
cp: can not create regular file '/mnt/boot/boot/grub/crypto.lst': no
space left on device
Grub-install wrote extensively to the 3.5" diskette /dev/fd0
nonetheless.
Is this error message significant?
3. When I booted this machine with the boot diskette thus created, I got
the message
Operating System not found
Why?
4. I executed the parallel script
mke2fs /dev/fd0
grub-install /dev/fd0
on another 3.5" diskette, and was told
/usr/bin/grub-setup: warn: attempting to install GRUB to a
partitionaless disk. This is a BAD idea.
/usr/bin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is
required for cross-disk install.
Why?
The only difference between this script and the last is that I did not
create a directory /boot on the diskette and instruct GRUB to place its
files there. Why should that be necessary? GRUB apparently creates a
subdirectory /boot for itself anyway. Why should its subdirectory /boot
have to lie within another subdirectory /boot?
5. Is it possible to install GRUB 2 on a diskette and have that diskette
actually boot the machine on which the diskette was created?
Thank you for your attention.
-- William Lee Valentine
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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